I am looking at various videos of artists on the Tate website: Matt Collishaw who works a lot with nature, bats, voodoo, etc. etc. and Gerhard Richter who says he is lazy

The big problem when you’re an artist is that the times of creation don’t come often. Most of the time I stay here in my studio and groan, and after that I go to my room, look at the TV. (Christian Boltanski)